Platypleura

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Platypleura
Platypleura deusta m.jpg
Platypleura deusta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Genus: Platypleura
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species

See text.

Platypleura hilpa Platypleura hilpa in Xiamen.png
Platypleura hilpa

Platypleura is a genus of cicadas, occurring widely across Africa and southern Asia; it belongs to the tribe Platypleurini and species previously included here are now placed in other genera, such as Planopleura and Dyticopycna .

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Some of the South African species are remarkable for their endothermic thermoregulation that enables crepuscular signalling, an adaptation that reduces risk of predation and enables a greater range for their calls. In field experiments their maximum body temperature while calling at dusk, was measured at 22 °C above ambient temperature. [1]

The Platypleurini are distributed from the Cape in South Africa, throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, through India and south-eastern Asia, to Japan. [2] The faunas of West Africa and Madagascar are distinctive, while those of southern and east Africa resemble the Asian group. Endothermy occurs in several large-bodied South American and South African species, but not in related small-bodied species. [3]

Species

Platypleura mijburghi Platypleura mijburghi00.jpg
Platypleura mijburghi

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database [4] includes:

  1. Platypleura adouma Distant, 1904
  2. Platypleura affinis (Fabricius, 1803)
  3. Platypleura andamana Distant, 1878 – Andaman Islands
  4. Platypleura arabica Myers, 1928 – United Arab Emirates [5]
  5. Platypleura argentata Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
  6. Platypleura argus Melichar, 1911
  7. Platypleura arminops (Noualhier, 1896) – Thailand [6]
  8. Platypleura assamensis Atkinson, 1884 – Jalpaiguri
  9. Platypleura auropilosa Kato, 1940 – Thailand
  10. Platypleura basimacula Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Northwest Province, Free State, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  11. Platypleura basi-viridis Walker, 1850 – India [7]
  12. Platypleura bettoni Distant, 1904
  13. Platypleura bombifrons Karsch, 1890 – Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Zimbabwe
  14. Platypleura brevis Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi
  15. Platypleura brunea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa
  16. Platypleura canescens Walker, 1870 – East Timor
  17. Platypleura capensis (Linnaeus, 1764) – Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Metalasia muricata , Brachylaena discolor
  18. Platypleura capitata (Olivier, 1790)
  19. Platypleura cespiticola Boulard, 2006
  20. Platypleura centralis Distant, 1897
  21. Platypleura chalybaea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Euphorbia triangularis
  22. Platypleura ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
  23. Platypleura clara Amyot & Serville, 1843
  24. Platypleura coelebs Stål, 1863
  25. Platypleura crampeli Boulard, 1975
  26. Platypleura deusta (Thunberg, 1822) – Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Lesotho, South Africa on Leucosidea sericea , Cliffortia
  27. Platypleura distincta Atkinson, 1884
  28. Platypleura divisa (Germar, 1834) – Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  29. Platypleura durvillei (Boulard, 1991)
  30. Platypleura fulvigera Walker, 1850
  31. Platypleura girardi Boulard, 1977
  32. Platypleura gowdeyi Distant, 1914 – South Africa on Acacia gerrardii
  33. Platypleura haglundi Stål, 1866 – Northwest Province, Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Kwazulu-Natal, to Zimbabwe, Southern Africa on Acacia karroo , Acacia , Dichrostachys cinerea
  34. Platypleura hampsoni (Distant, 1887)
  35. Platypleura harmandi Distant, 1905
  36. Platypleura hilpa (Walker, 1850)
  37. Platypleura hirta Karsch, 1890 – Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga
  38. Platypleura hirtipennis (Germar, 1834) – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  39. Platypleura inglisi Ollenbach, 1928
  40. Platypleura instabilis Boulard, 1977
  41. Platypleura intermedia Liu, 1940
  42. Platypleura kabindana Distant, 1919
  43. Platypleura kenyana Lallemand, 1929
  44. Platypleura laticlavia Stål, 1858 – Northwest Province, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Botswana, Namibia
  45. Platypleura lindiana Distant, 1905
  46. Platypleura lineatella Distant, 1905
  47. Platypleura longirostris Ashton, 1914
  48. Platypleura lourensi Lee, 2009
  49. Platypleura machadoi Boulard, 1972
  50. Platypleura mackinnoni Distant, 1904
  51. Platypleura makaga Distant, 1904
  52. Platypleura maytenophila Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  53. Platypleura mijburghi Villet, 1989a – Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  54. Platypleura minima Lee & Marshall, 2023
  55. Platypleura mira (Distant, 1904) – Thailand [6]
  56. Platypleura murchisoni Distant, 1905e – Mpumalanga
  57. Platypleura nigrosignata Distant, 1913
  58. Platypleura octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)
  59. Platypleura parvula Boulard, 2006
  60. Platypleura pinheyi Boulard, 1980
  61. Platypleura plumosa (Germar, 1834) – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  62. Platypleura polita (Walker, 1850)
  63. Platypleura polydorus (Walker, 1850)
  64. Platypleura poorvachala Marathe, Yeshwanth, Basu & Kunte, 2017
  65. Platypleura punctigera Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape
  66. Platypleura rothschildi Melichar, 1911
  67. Platypleura semusta (Distant, 1887)
  68. Platypleura signifera Walker, 1850 – Eastern Cape
  69. Platypleura sobrina Stål, 1866
  70. Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Cicada stridulaLinnaeus) – Western Cape, South Africa on Salix
  71. Platypleura takasagona zh Matsumura, 1917 – Taiwan
  72. Platypleura techowi Schumacher, 1913 – Northern Cape, Free State, North West Province, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
  73. Platypleura testacea (Walker, 1858)
  74. Platypleura turneri Boulard, 1975 – Western Cape
  75. Platypleura wahlbergi Stål, 1855 – Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  76. Platypleura watsoni (Distant, 1897) – Thailand
  77. Platypleura westwoodi Stål, 1863
  78. Platypleura witteana Dlabola, 1960

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References

  1. ↑ Sanborn, Allen F. (2003). "Hot-blooded singers: endothermy facilitates crepuscular signaling in African platypleurine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Platypleura spp.)". Naturwissenschaften. 90 (7): 305–308. Bibcode:2003NW.....90..305S. doi:10.1007/s00114-003-0428-1. PMID   12883772. S2CID   9090814.
  2. ↑ "Platypleurini, cicadas". Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
  3. ↑ pers. comm. prof Martin Villet, Rhodes University
  4. ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (retrieved 9 June 2025)
  5. ↑ Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates. Trident Press. 1996. ISBN   9781900724029.
  6. 1 2 View Handout
  7. ↑ Platypleura basi-viridis (No common name) Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
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